From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 6 09:13:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA04499 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pooh.cdrom.com (pooh.cdrom.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA04493 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:13:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (support@localhost) by pooh.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA01419 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:12:47 -0700 (PDT) Delivery-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 15:59:29 -0700 X-Received: from gateway.s3.com (gateway.s3.com [198.211.58.4]) by pooh.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA05205 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:59:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: from s3.s3.com (loghost.s3.com [172.19.8.4]) by gateway.s3.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA21036 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:39:25 -0700 X-Received: from s3 (intra1.s3.com [172.19.9.97]) by s3.s3.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA12751 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:57:34 -0700 X-Received: from kanchipuram.s3 by s3 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA22726; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:57:17 -0700 X-Received: from kanchipuram by kanchipuram.s3 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06479; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:56:31 -0700 Message-ID: <33E7AF9F.4808@s3.com> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 15:56:31 -0700 From: Srinivasan Iyengar Organization: S3 Inc (408)588-8643 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: support@cdrom.com CC: iyengar@s3.com Subject: cannot boot freebsd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ReSent-Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:12:37 -0700 (PDT) ReSent-From: Murray Stokely ReSent-To: questions@freebsd.org ReSent-Message-ID: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, My customer # is 353174. I have two disks on my machine. Both EIDE. The first drive hd0 has Windows NT loaded on it using NTFS file system. This is a 1.7G drive. My second drive is 3.8G and I loaded FreeBSD on it. When I installed the boot manager, it correctly boots Windows NT when I select it, but when it tries to boot FreeBSD, it comes up with a message - "panic - cannot mount root - changing root device to wd1a ". I tried using the G command to specify the correct geometry of the drive. It understood it during the install, but it does not help in getting the system to boot. Please let me know what I should do to get this system to boot FreeBSD? Thanks for your help. -- ============================================================= Srinivasan Iyengar S3 Inc. 2801 Mission College Blvd. Voice (408)588-8643 P.O. Box 58058 Fax (408)980-7877 Santa Clara, CA 95052-8058 email iyengar@s3.com =============================================================